LANSING – Michigan’s Republican legislators – with expansion of the federal
health care law, chronic unemployment and broken infrastructure already on their
plate – have found time to hold a hearing and ponder what to them is an
important issue: illegal picketing. ..

ESSEXVILLE – Over the last two decades, emissions control upgrades installed
at Consumers Energy’s Karn-Weadock Generating Complex have made the plant vastly
more complex than it was when it first started making power in 1955. ..